Great film… and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.

Fine Leiber-Stoller song there. English beat group the The Searchers covered it, made it to US#3 in 1965. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8

Good old limeland … even in the pokey, you get a cuppa. LOL.

The ‘Sunshine’ song was inspired by his current wife. 30 years in Ireland.

Stuck in there though… last charting album was in 1976. Looks to still have some faithful fans, last compilation album 2021, new album ‘Gaelia’ in 2022, AND he’s planning a concert series for 2025.

He had more significant things to do with his life. Whatever, good for him. It worked for a lot of big-shots’ kids. During Vietnam, Bush Jr. spent two years in the Texas Air Nation Guard. During Vietnam, Trump got deferred for bad feet or college 5 times.

Really! It didn’t hurt when I didn’t exist before. And there remains a chance that we -will- get back. May it be in some time that is … less senseless.

Another single basic mechanism (for some in the world, anyway) is: acceptance.

Not saying you have to like death. But it’s all around us, and people who live closer to nature get to see death regularly, from carnivorous animals (little choice) to plants which green, bear fruit, and fade away in fall. Most people don’t ever need to embrace death, but recognize it’s part of the natural order.

Denial points us away from the real and is mentally unhealthy. Acceptance releases us from that potential fear and stress. It also encourages us to truly appreciate what we have, especially while we have it, and ever afterward for our good fortune while we had it. Life is change.

Acceptance reminds us to ‘drink life to the lees’, like Omar Khayyam. Not to waste our time on adverts, or fashion trends, or fretting about things we can’t do anything about, or worrying about what might be. When we’re sure we’ve done our best in this wiggy world, we need ask ourselves no more. Compassion for ourselves empowers us to share that with others.

GOSH I’d like to see that be 2 times longer, and have some price-ranges.

“Works perfectly” huh? That’s better than most can claim before freezing! ACT NOW! for a BIG discount!

Variations on that song went back a long ways. (Here’s some more on that: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/25/the-house-of-the-rising-sun-2-2/

The earliest known recording seems to be this by Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster. It’s a banjo choon from 1933. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147kS8O59Qs

And here are some snatches of lots of other versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNFqhMJ4DA

The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event’s biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it’s aimed at … but anyway , no, we are not prepared.

" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." — von Goethe

Powerful message. “Brought to you by DHHS, National Cigarette Foundation, Department of Education, Cigs4Kidz, and Viewers Like You.”

Don’t remember any PSA’s like that back from when they were doing atmospheric testing of atom bombs down in Nevada for weeks on end. But they weren’t planning on smoking them all the way.

Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records) was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2001. He promoted Marley to the world. And Blackwell said "He trusted my instincts, which were that he should go after being a rock star, rather than a star on black American radio. "

A lot of stuff being done in earlier days (50s-60s), like ska (“My Boy Lollipop”) or rockabilly or “Doo-wop” was a foundational part of the *rock’n’roll’ era. Depends on whether you draw a hard line on when Classic began ( like Wikipedia tries to do) and leave out all the the great artists that built up the foundations.

To me ‘Classic’ would include all Buddy Holly’s stuff (died in 1959), Chuck Berry, Bill Haley (‘Rock Around the Clock’ (1954), and earlier, and a WHOLE LOT MORE great artists. Without the trunk, the branches wouldn’t reach so high.

That place always reminds me of Nichigecki Theatre in Tokyo, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/nichigeki-music-hall-tokyo--459156124481152401/ where rock first took-off in Japan back in 1958 (sometimes called ’ rokabiri ').

Different strokes! esp. depending on which orbit you’re in.

Always have a good time when I run into this channel. Gotta be scary for drummers, but I’m not, maybe that’s it!

If I had to pick one, I’d have go with Rubber Soul for best music. But I don’t. Sadly, I’ve heard all their stuff SO many times, I’m past the ‘enough is enough’ threshold.

Wow. It was only after reading comments on this post until that I remembered WHY I was more than happy to leave Reddit behind. Too bad so many of these diseased children moved over here.

It took just one comment: ’ What is “4000ac”? ’ to start the drool-fest.

Got a neuralink? One word you never wanna hear: ‘Oops!’

Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.

Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.